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A gunman opened fire at a Wisconsin spa today, injuring at least seven people. The area is on lockdown as authorities in Brookfield work to secure the scene, which is across the street from a shopping mall. It was not immediately clear whether a suspect had been arrested. Read more: ABC News

George McGovern, an unabashed liberal voice, dead at 90

George Stanley McGovern — a staunch liberal who served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and House for more than two decades and who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1972 — died Sunday at the age of 90, his family said. Read more: CNN

A callous driver struck and killed an elderly man who was walking on a Queens sidewalk Saturday and then got out of his car and ran away from the grisly scene, cops said. The pedestrian, 76-year-old Victor Florio, was taking a stroll along Booth Memorial Ave. near 164th St. when a 2007 Toyota Rav 4 suddenly hopped the curb about 7:45 a.m., police said. Read more: Daily News

JFK and La Guardia getting body scanners that show more cartoonlike pictures

Scanners that create creepily clear images of travelers’ naked bodies are being swapped out of big airports in favor of newer machines that show more cartoonlike pictures, the Transportation Security Administration says. TSA officials are pulling a giant scanner switcheroo — shifting the older scanners, called backscatter imagers, away from big airports to small ones. Read more: NY Post

Suspect charged with rape in Queens massage parlor

Police arrested on Long Island a man suspected of a sexual assault last week in a massage parlor in Flushing, Queens. Zhordrack Blodywon, 40, is charged with rape, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property. Read more: NY1

Growing push for ‘landmark’ tree

A landmark-worthy tree grows in . . . Queens? Grassroots preservationists aim to petition the city to add a Woodside hardwood that dates to the Revolutionary War to a list of landmarks that includes the Empire State Building and the Brooklyn Bridge. Read more: NY Post